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one line, infinite possibilities. bill: so onward we go, huh? two more weeks of lent. martha: two more weeks of lent as we were discussing. have a great day everybody. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: right now we have brand new stories and breaking news. >> the fbi on the scene of the university of central florida after a suspicious death there. plus explosives were found inside a dorm. we're live with breaking details. the gop's bold new plan for the future. what the party needs to connect with voters it finds. china out with a new warning for the united states about plans to beef up our missile defense system. how this could impact growing tensions with north korea. it's all "happening now.". fox news alert on a campus in chaos. police are investigating a apparent suicide find weapons and explosive devices at the university of central florida.

that is how we begin this monday. i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. ucf is canceling classes just hours after evacuating a dorm where a student was found dead, forcing 500 students out of that building. right now police say it appears the man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. phil keating live in miami, with more on this, phil? >> reporter: hi, jenna. no class is happening on the ucf campus this morning the ucf campus sits on the eastern side of the orlando metro area and all of this started, this very deadly incident shortly after midnight. first there was alarm in tower one. that is seven-story residential hall. as police and fire arriving to the scene they reports of a man with a gun. when they got to the man's room they confirmed the uc "f" student apparently was dead, shot himself to death. inside the room they found a handgun, rifle and improvised explosive devices in a book

bag which fbi and bomb experts are dealing with. >> we have 500 students in tower one, ucf main campus. we have a university of 60,000. this is significant impact to the operation. >> reporter: all of the students who live in tower one, which some of the rooms actually have multiple students. it appears this student actually may have had three roommates. so key information still being gleaned by investigators. jenna: scary situation, phil. did the university or police have contact with this student at all before this incident? >> reporter: till remains very unclear. ucf is gathering the information. there will be a 3:45 this afternoon news conference to hopefully shed more details on the case. a spokesman for ucf tells us there was no sort of manifesto or any type of a note or written plan inside the student's room and no details yet as to the components of the bomb found in that student's room or whether there was any type

of booby-trap type rigging like the aurora, colorado, movie theater massacre suspect allegedly did in his apartment. we're told classes will resume at noon. just less than an hour from now. however all the students in tower 1 will remain not, able to go to their rooms for probably several more hours. jenna: wow! more information as we get it, phil. thank you. >> reporter: all right jon: a new report reflects what many speakers at cpac said, the party needs to do a better job connecting with voters. it calls the gop to embrace variety of views on social issues like gay marriage. joining me, jamie weinstein, senior editor of "the daily caller". jamie, this new report you describe as sort of a bold step? >> well, certainly bolder

than a lot of people thought because it was an internal review by the republican national committee. some people wanted them to do an outside review of what went wrong. they thought it was internal review it would not really tackle the major issues were problematic and gloss over them. what came out was a lot different than what people expected. they took on issues like gay marriage and immigration, calling for comprehensive immigration reform and not necessarily calling for gay marriage, but suggesting to win over americans who may be gay, you have to be open to ideas. you can't just, push those ideas away. so much bolder in testimony ways that and lot of people expected. jon: pandering to the anti-immigration crowd is the surest way to lose the next election, that is one of the conclusions? >> right. it says that you can't act hostile to immigrants or hispanic americans or have hostile rhetoric and expect them to vote for you. it may not be the number one issue for immigrant americans or hispanic

americans but it is one of those issues where you have to sound like you're welcoming before they can look at other issues. so that was one of the areas where they recommended. and frankly, a lot of republicans are already on board with this, leading the way is marco rubio obviously and the gang of eight which is pushing for comprehensive immigration reform. jon: we've seen president obama going in for soft media interviews, "people" magazine, "the view", "the daily show" with jon stewart. republicans have to do the same thing according to this report. >> sounds a little bit frivolous but maybe it is but one of the suggestions in the report that republicans do more apearns poos on colbert report and daily show and do interviews with "us weekly." they have very serious proposals in the report. some things which may be important but sound a bit frivolous to people reading it. jon: why is that important? >> well i think it is not everyone watches fox news. not everyone watches, the evening news at night. some people read

entertainment weekly and don't actually get serious hard news. some way to reach out into the culture and to the people who are not watching cable news 24 hours a day. maybe go on some of these shows. as you know a lot of youth watch "the daily show" and "the colbert report." that may be a way to reach out to them. i think that is the reasoning behind it. whether that is true or not, who knows. jon: but at the same time this report said not to be a policy committee report. it is what, telling ways to win the election but not necessarily specific stances the party should take? >> well the rnc is supposed not to shape policy for the elected officials. but it goes somewhere towards that. obviously on immigration reform, supporting comprehensive immigration bill. so it kind of touches on certain issues but it is not reshaping republican policy. i don't think that is its job. jon: jamie weinstein, the senior editor at the daily caller. thank you. >> thank you. jenna: right now the next chapter in the jodi arias

murder trial, jurors could hear more testimony from a forensic psychologist today, maybe. last week a defense witness claimed arias suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and memory loss since killing her lover. but prosecutor juan martinez says the psychologist is not qualified to testify about these matters. he plans to take up the issue at a hearing before jurors arrive today. dominic di-natale live from the los angeles bureau with more. >> reporter: jenna, there will be an evidentiary hearing around 1:15 p.m. eastern time today. the jury will not be present today as they're wrapping up left over business from last week. the prosecutor as you described taking objection too much of the testimony of dr. richard samuels. he is a psychologist that the defense brought forward to present and talk about ptsd. he produced a slide show presentation to talk about you who the brain reacts during stressful events but juan martinez, the prosecutor attacked arias

defense team for not revealing it beforehand. the judge did eventually allow the slide show however, but martin says samuels plans on testifying on matters he is isn't qualified to address. that will be whether he believed arias committed a premeditated crime. >> these were never mentioned by the, this individual when we conducted the interview. what he did indicate as part of his report was that he believed this was not a premeditated act and it was in self-defense. the court already ruled he can not express those views. >> reporter: martinez has a real beef with samuels saying samuels is neither qualified or allowed to classify this as a certain kind of crime, namely the crime of passion which is the line the defense appears to be taking. jury is told to turn up 2:00 p.m. eastern time. actual trial will start at some point in the afternoon. given the hearing and trial resuming we'll cover it all day on fox. back to you, jenna. jenna: sound good.

thank you. jon: more than 30 cabins were destroyed in a wildfire in the national park. crews calling on the national guard to help beat back the flames. the latest coming up in a live report. carnival cruise lines dealing with more angry passengers from another disabled ship. the look at the latest ship limping back to port and what one senator wants to do to try to protect passengers in the future. >> terrible trip. canceled early. three days at sea. missed two stops and only gave us 100 bucks. >> last cruise i'm taking for sure.

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jon: right now crews are battling a fire raging in a resort area in eastern tennessee. that fire broke out yesterday afternoon destroying 30 cabins near the great smokey mountain na gregg jarrett live in the newsroom with more. gregg? >> 200 people were forced to evacuate and the leave the

cabins near trappers ridge. this massive blaze ignited by a cabin fire at the berridge resort although what sparked that fire inside the cabin is unknown. it spread quickly to 150 acres. visitors and residents told to get out fast. shelters set of up for those escaping the flames. this is the affected area on the map. this is pigeon forge on black bear cub way. a state of emergency has been declared. 30 fire departments and national garth helicopters are used to fight the wildfire. the choppers scooping up fire from douglas lake and dropping on the flames. reportedly it is now contained. the good news, no injuries or fatalities reported but some 35 cabins have either been damaged or destroyed. dolly parton's dollywood, the theme park nearby has been spared. there was a small separate fire there but it will not affect the season opening this coming weekend in case you're heading there. yahoo!. there is a 90% chance of

rain today. that will certainly be welcome news for the firefighters who are still on the ground. they do have this thing contained. we'll keep you updated, jon? jon: unusual to have that kind of a wildfire this time of year. >> it is indeed. jon: gregg jarrett, thank you. jenna: more rough seas for carnival cruise lines today as yet another ship full of vacationers staggers back to port. the cruise ship legend returning to tampa after experiencing mechanical problems. does grunt he willed customers expect passengers to prepare for the worse. >> what would happen and we need to bring depends with us and plastic bag. jenna: that is not type of question you want to ask before you go on vacation? jon: not at all. jenna: a prominent u.s. senator is calling for a passenger bill of rights when it comes to cruises. peter doocy live with more. >> reporter: right now senator chuck schumer, democrat from new york where cruise passengers spent more than $120 million last year ashore is trying to drum up

support for the passenger bill of rights saying cruisers should not be force to live in third world conditions when they go on vacation. >> these ships are regulated by foreign country who is have virtually no regulation at all. they dock in our ports. they're often, they advertise all over america. the majority of their passengers are american but they fly foreign flags. and one of the reasons they fly foreign flags, is because there's virtually no regulation. >> reporter: so without that regulation schumer says cruise ships have become the wild west of the travel industry and he reportedly now wants secretary of state kerry involved to help negotiate terms with these foreign companies for protections that he says would be similar to the airline passenger bill of rights and would penalize cruise lines anytime passengers are denied toilets or power and guaranty refunds for last-minute cancellations.

we've seen some passengers from the carnival triumph which was towed into mobile, alabama, last month file federal lawsuits against carnival but others who have disembarked disabled carnival ships recently were less upset. >> we had a slight disruption in elevator service. we had a slight disruption in the flushing of toilets which wasn't a problem. it was a very short time period. they took excellent care of us and made sure we all have flights home. >> they gave us credit and 50% off to travel with them again and we will. >> vacation, you have to take it like it is. people are too serious and get upset. >> reporter: senator schumer says he wants the cruise lines to eventually adopt the passenger bill of rights themselves. jenna. jenna: we'll continue to watch that side of the story. peter, thank you. jon: new developments on the growing tension with north korea. china, the north's biggest ally is weighing in with a

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jenna: brand new developments on growing pen ounce shuns with north korea as kim jong-un continues threats of a preemptive nuclear strike on the united states. now china, the biggest ally of north korea and its biggest trading partner, is

now warning the united states about our plans to beef up our own missile defense system. a top chinese government spokesman telling the chinese media, quote, all measures seeking to increase military capacities will only intensify antagonism and will not help solve the problem. retired major general bob scales served five years in korea over his time in the military, that spans about three decades. that is him on the right there. he commanded artillery battalion that helped protect a key area along the dmz where we still have tens of thousands of troops. he joins us now. general, every time you're on we learn a little something extra about your service. nice to have you with us here today. >> thanks, jenna. jenna: geography can tell you something. being on the ground can influence your perspective on types of international issues. tell us how your time impacts what you see north korea is doing now and china's comments as well? >> well i spent most of my time actually serving on the

dmz as in various capacities, assistant division commander, battalion commander and war planner. i understand as most people what the north korean mostives are and what the real nature the threat from north korea. we think the greatest threat of missiles that launch nuclear weapons. in fact the great threat as you may know, jenna, is the 5,000 artillery pieces they have aimed at seoul right now and 1.2 million man army that has something like 5000 tanks. so the north koreans have a very serious military, forth largest in the world in addition to nuclear weapons. so they are a serious nuclear and a very serious conventional threat. jenna: so how are you understanding the recent threats coming from that country, not just on south korea but on the united states as well? >> yeah, this is, a little background, quick background. it's now march, almost april. and this is called the starving season in

north korea. if they have a particularly bad harvest, then in the springtime, the rice begins to run out. their fuel begins to run out and people really begin to suffer. so a lot of this is just bluster and intimidation to try to get the western powers, the united states, japan, even south korea, to start ponying up cash and food to keep that country from collapsing. in addition to that, jenna, there's evidence to suggest there is an internal power struggle now going on between kim jong-un and the senior generals and kim has to show that he's got his sort of hand on the throttle if you will when dealing with outside powers because north korea really in their own sociopathic way, really believe they're under threat from the united states. jenna: let's talk l a little bit about china's comments then. because china is entering into this circle and reacting to the news that we'll put more interceptors in alaska and california in response to north korea's threats. why does china care?

>> first of all china is talking to the wrong country. they're the only country that can hold back north korea right now quite frankly is china because china supplies most of the food and fuel that north korea will need in the coming months to survive. the reason they're talking about missiles in alaska because just try to ratchet up the dialogue. these are purely defensive missiles. they're only intended to shoot down the rogue missile fired from north korea. they're very effective at what they do and by doubling the number of missiles we make the west coast of the united states more secure. no, this is just chinese bluster and the message from the united states back to china through the state department hopefully as, you need to talk to the actor who is going to cause all the mischief in that country. and oh, by the way, if something terrible should happen the chinese as well as the north koreans would be affected, jenna. jenna: how big of a risk do you think all of this bluster is to the tens of thousands of americans troops on the ground still in south korea? >> yeah.

see that's really important, jenna because most of the media is focusing on the west coast of the united states. remember we have 28,000 american soldiers in south korea and their families and many of those folks are living in seoul and south of seoul in various camps and stations and airbases and it's just a chip shot for the north koreans to deliver, either conventional or nuclear weapons against not only the south koreans but against us. should that, god forbid ever happen, should there be this huge miscalculation on the part of the north, the consequences for the entire region, not just north and south korea and the united states but the entire region would be catastrophic. you don't need a 5,000 mile missile to know that. jenna: you think there might just be a real risk of that happening based on the internal politics in north korea and again the ratcheting up of rhetoric in the region. what do we say to china to get them to stop north korea

from doing this and creating a problem where there isn't one? >> well, what we say to the chinese is what we've been saying for the last year. this is all on you. we don't provide the north with any support, nor should we. neither does south korea and japan. you're the people propping up this regime. you used to be concerned about what is called internal collapse where north koreans would rush across the yalu seeking refuge but the chinese are beginning to realize their old stalinist era partner is acting in a very, very, irresponsible way and hopefully the chinese are internally are saying to the north koreans, either you start behaving and acting like adults we'll cut off the food and fuel. by the way, our responsibility is to get to the north koreans and make them understand we're serious about this and we're not playing games with the north. now all of sudden this whole issue is becoming personal. jenna: very interesting. that leads to the question

of what kind of leverage do we really have with those circles of people. we'll save that for another time, a whole different conversation. general scales, great to have your perspective as always. >> thank you, jenna. jon: we'll have interview about the man that beat the wright brothers into the skies in 20 minutes. supreme court is taking up controversial voter i.d. law requiring people to prove their citizenship before they can vote. we're live in washington with the latest on that. winter going out with a bang. blizzard conditions stretching from north dakota to iowa today. will spring ever get here? a look at the late winter storm and where it's headed coming up. when did you know that grandma was the one?

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jenna: fox news weather alert for you now. a late winter storm slamming the upper midwest today. the national weather service is issuing blizzard and other severe weather warnings for that entire region. many schools are either closed today or starting late as drifting snow is making travel pretty treacherous in that part of the country. meteorologist maria molina is live from the fox weather center with more. hi, maria. >> general that, good to see you. this winter storm produced wind gusts of 40 to even 50 miles an hour in the upper midwest. early this morning very dangerous conditions if you're doing traveling. this is pretty large storm system. it is centered across parts of minnesota but well ahead

of the system. we have the moisture creeping on into parts of pennsylvania and mid-atlantic and also into new jersey. further toward the west we have do have an area of low pressure. that is where the strongest winds are located. accumulations as far as snowfall across parts of minnesota into wisconsin are generally lighter. two to five inches of snow expected out here. the wind is a huge concern. that is why we do have blizzard warnings in effect and winter storm warnings in effect. widespread winter advisories that is the shading in white. we have winter storm warnings in effect in parts of maine, new hampshire and new england upstate new york and pennsylvania because we'll see snow out here as well as the storm system keeps heading eastbound later on into this afternoon, tonight and into tomorrow we could pick up smith snowfall accumulation into new england. lighter accumulations further south and on the southern side of the system, jenna, believe it or not we have severe weather possible,

tornados, damaging wind gusts and large hail from louisiana up into parts of kentucky. jenna: when is the first day of spring again? it is a wednesday but, i don't know. confused. jenna: there you go. maybe another nature doesn't know. putting it off another week. maria, thanks. jon: the supreme court justices hearing arguments over a controversial arizona voter i.d. law. it requires people prove their citizenship before they can vote. shannon bream live outside the supreme court in washington. you just stepped outside of after hearing arguments. how heated did it get? >> it was pretty feisty between the justices and various attorneys arguing the case. under the federal law there is simple form that registers you to vote. tough check a box saying you're a u.s. citizen and sign the form to put it in the mail. arizona said, you know what, as a state we're tasked with enforcing how it works, we'll add onto that, when people register in the state of arizona there are

additional things they ask for to prove citizenship something like driver's license, but additional things like birth certificate or tribal documentation of some kind because of many native-american tribes in arizona, they accept a lot of different things. a number about plaintiffs came up and sued over that, saying it disenfranchises people there legally, maybe can't provide the documents and discriminatory in its nature and has to stop. the federal form is very simple. it should rule. the feds should have the final word. the state can't additional burdens. there were a number of skeptics on the court, among them justice scalia who had plenty of tough questions for both sides. what kind of proof is it to have somebody check a form and sign it? there is no penalty? what happens next? arizona's attorney general did talk about the fact they have prosecuted a number about cases. had several convictions of people who were here in the country illegally but tried to register to vote and filled out the forms. they were charged with perjury. a lot of back and forth today. the justices were split enough i don't have a clear

indkigs where they will go but we will have a decision sometime between now and june. jon? jon: it will be fascinating. thanks very much. shannon bream, supreme court. >> reporter: you got it. jenna: tiny country with potentially a huge impact on the global markets with news of a bailout for cypress. the deal is set to be voted on tomorrow. it includes having the average citizen pay a tax on their bank deposits whether they wanted to or not. they would take that from the savings accounts. this is the first time we've seen a eurozone bailout structured in such a way. if it passes. if it doesn't, cypress says it will grow bankrupt. right now minimal effects on our markets here at home. but the dow is trading lower. here is background on cypress. it is at the eastern end. mediterranean sea, 30 miles south of turkey. you see it on the map. it is a very small country, smaller than the state of hawaii. its population of a little more than a million people is roughly the city of dallas. its gross domestic product of $23.6 billion is about

the same as the state of vermont. there will be a quiz on all of this later. charles payne, fox business network around ceo of w street.com. charles, a little country. why such a big deal? >> it is such a big deal for several reasons. first of all we know greece is small country, not as small as cypress but these things have a ripple effect. also the draconian nature of this. everyone watching this thinks their saving account are free from government overreach, from the government actually going in and taking money from your account. this is crazy. it reverberated across the internet all weekend long. our markets were down 100 points at the open. there is some rotation into bonds and gold is up. essentially what we're talking about is, a country to your point, jenna, listen, their gdp is really low but they have about 80 billion euros in their banks. a lot of it comes from russia and a lot of other places. maybe why the finance ministers thought this would be okay. even if someone has 30 euros

in the bank they will be hit. they're sort of trying to redo the thing as we speak. it will go through no doubt in my mind. they make provisions for people with smaller bank accounts not to be hit as hard as initially proposed. >> talk a little bit about this bailout, charles. you see bailout, everyone has an idea what that means over the last couple years. we have seen some of them but this would be strikingly different in that if i had a savings account in this country the government would just take from that savings account directly without me paying anything? >> absolutely. jenna: that is so different. >> that is different. jenna: why are they even going about it in this way? >> it is called 1000% desperation. they have been trying to find ways to get money into the country for a long time. essentially i think this is the deal. the ecb, european stability fund and international monetary fund, they all said cypress you have to have skin in the game if we give you ten billion euros. you have to come up with 6 billion on your own. they looked around. saying we have a lot of money in the bank.

30, 40% doesn't belong to citizens from our country. maybe that is fair game. imagine you go home. done everything right. put money in the bank. even with less than 100,000 euros will be hit for 6%. they're maybe talking making that 3%. upper end, 100,000 euros, 13%. either way you will get hit. jenna: what about the argument everyone is in it together? >> right. jenna: trying to think about the devil's advocate here. it is shocking to hear that if everyone is in it together and country goes bankrupt and there is no other option, i don't know. >> it is really, really tough. the average person out there, this country is in trouble. we're talking about, their market value has gone down 97%. they have really hit rock bottom, yet you're all in it together but no one expects their savings account to be confiscated any portion of it at any time. there are certain things that are certainly off limits. how could they ever have a banking sector ever again?

without a banking sector how could they have sustained economic recovery? jenna: good point, charles. seeing note cross from the associated press. there is a teleconference happening this evening to discuss the bailout and the proposal to seize a percentage of the deposits. we'll see what happens. >> yeah. >> big question if it happens in cypress could it happen in other bigger european countries and what would that mean for tear economies. >> or could it happen in america one day? believe me, people are asking that question this morning. jenna: thanks, charles, as always. >> thanks. jon: here is a shocker out of california. look at some live pictures outside the courthouse there. waiting for lindsay lohan. she could be late herself for a very important court date today. and that could mean that the troubled actress could face serious jail time again. plus almost certain you know the names of orville and wilbur wright but what about a guy named gustav white ahead? a respected aviation journbelieves he beat the

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jon: brand new stories coming up new next hour. a prominent republican senator claims survivors of the terror attacks in benghazi are being told to keep quiet about what happened that night. bret baier joins us with his take. a small private jet crashes into a suburb ban neighborhood in indiana. the latest as investigators search for the cause. and remember this guy? opposed as a rockefeller for years. now he is on trial for murder. our legal panel takes a look at that case. jenna: we're going to stay with the court theme and troubled actress lindsay lohan is now in a race against the clock to make a mandatory court appearance in los angeles. she could face serious jail time because of all this. gregg jarrett following this story for us, lawyer that he is. >> reporter: she is either in a nightclub tripping light fantastic or in a court of law crying,

boo-hoo. today the late other, lindsay lohan who's alleged acting career cratered amid charges of drunk driving crashes, you name it. she is appearing before a l.a. judge who will determine whether she goes to jail or somehow averts trial on charges she lied to police. appears she is headed to trial over that june car crash which she pled not guilty to reckless driving, lying to cops and obstructing officers. even if she isn't convicted, lohan faces up to 245 days in jail if a judge determines she violated her probation in that 2011 theft case. here's another twist to this. the judge is questioning the competence of her lawyer, mark heller, another set of attorneys is actually waiting in the wings to take over the case if he messes up. she will not, however, have her long-time lawyer, sean holly, who left the case earlier this year after keeping her out of jail on charges she swiped that $2500 necklace. lohan apparently missed her

plane flight last night from new york to l.a., what a surprise. instead traveling on a private plane provided by l.a.-based energy drink company which she made promotional experiences. thanks, mr. pink, for the private jet, she tweeted. see you all in a few hours in l.a.. does she go to jail, not collect $200? we'll wait and see. jenna: would you take her as a client, gregg? what do you think? >> reporter: she is a bit of a train wreck and want my money up front in cash in a brown-bag. jenna: sounds smart. >> reporter: yeah. jenna: all things considered. >> reporter: i had clients like that. jenna: i want to hear more about that. >> reporter: can't tell you. don't tell the irs. jenna: gregg, thank you. jon: well, march means springtime, st. paddie's day and of course college basketball. march madness begins this week. yesterday was selection sunday, the die schools across-country schools learn whether or not they made the grade. this year people will put an estimated $3 billion, with a

b, dollars into office pools and tournament brackets. the tournament will also cost employers some big bucks. estimated $134 billion in lost wages just during the first two days of play. 7% of people are expected to take time off from work, just to watch the games. as if that wasn't enough basketball for you, in the nba, the miami heat, they're marching toward history. they're riding on an amazing 22-game-winning streak. they haven't lost since super bowl sunday and are inching closer to the longest win streak in nba history. let's talk about it all with jim gray, a sportscaster and a fox news contributor. so the louisville cardinals favored in college basketball. kentucky won it all last year and they're not even going to the dance, huh? >> that's correct. one of only 20 times that a defending champion isn't in this, jon. you really take a look at this. every time a team has gotten

to number one this year they have fallen and lost. so they're legitimately in this field, the 68-team field. four play in to make it a 64-team field. any one of the teams in the top 20, the 20 seeds probably can take this thing. who will win this thing? it is just so wide open. it is what we all want. everybody talks about taking time off at work and all the money spent on these pools and gambling and so on, so forth. but it is a great festival. there are someplaces in the country, everybody is involved. all these regions. it is a tremendous amount of fun. what everybody wishes the ncaa would have for football. jon: yeah. it has been kind of a topsy-turvy year in college basketball as you just alluded to. >> i mean, yeah, you know, indiana gets to number one, they lose. duke gets to number one, they lose, you can go on up and down the list. it happened so many times. now we have the four number one seeds and gonzaga is number one seed and that's a great thing. you see it everywhere across

the country. everybody going into this thing really legitimate feels like they have got a chance if they're in the top, 20, 25 teams. we haven't seen this before. i mean, i just read a statistic before i came on the air here, jon. there will be 100 million brackets filled out. the chance of winning and filling them all out correctly is 9.2 quinn till i don't know. i don't know what qintillion is or how to proannounce it. i know this, 100 billion times nine billion. you think our deficit is bad, they don't print that much money in the fed. we don't have that much in the system. jon: jim gray, good to talk to you. thanks, jim. jenna: breaking news out of washington, d.c. the president is officially announcing his nomination for labor secretary. his name is thomas perez. he is standing next to the president. just a few things he should know about thomas perez. assistant attorney general for the civil rights division right now. he spent a lot of time in

his career focusing on consumer rights and protection as well. if he is confirmed, the process that takes place after the official no announcement he will be only latino in the president's cabinet. they need to get americans back to work as labor secretary and what kind of role considering his background mr. perez might play in immigration reform and what type of employment policies could be put in place if there is some overarching immigration reform. we'll keep you posted on the announcement. as we hear more we'll bring that to you. jon: it was ten years ago that operation iraqi freedom launched. our own rick leventhal was embedded with the troops who fired the first historic shots. he will be here with a former commander of that battalion to reflect on the decade past. were we all wrong about the wright brothers? why an aviation historian says they were not the first men to fly.

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jon: right now a shocking claim about the wright brothers. the two american aviation pioneers long credited with making the first powered flight in human history. but now there's newly discovered evidence that suggests otherwise. photographs seem to show that this man, a german immigrant, actually flew over connecticut in august of 1901. that is more than two years before the wright brothers took to the air at kitty hawk. joining us john brown, the aviation historian behind what could be a revision to history. so, john, i was amazed to read you've been working on this really only since last

year. you were hired to do a documentary and found about something about this man, guys stuff whitehead? >> that's correct, jon. i was just as shocked as everybody else when i found it. jon: there is a lot of evidence out there. i mean his story was covered front page in newspapers around the country. more than 100 you learned. why have we not heard of him till now? >> i heard you before the commercial break asking the question, we were wrong about the wright brothers. well we weren't. one or two historians who said that, they were either wrong or just not looking hard enough. and that's what we historians do. we dig up facts and present them. jon: all right. so, what do you know about whitehead? he was a german immigrant. he knew a lot about engines and he was also fascinated with aircraft. the plane that he flew looks very much like a bird. >> well, whitehead first of all, he spent most of his life in the united states and applied for citizenship.

there is government bureaucracy issue here. his processing didn't go fast enough, so he died still a german. basically he wanted to be an american. so this is american success story too. and he emigrated after his both his parents died. he went to brazil first and then to boston and then he was the first fuel-tymec nick for the first aviation organization in america in 1894. jon: there are stories about photographs of the first flight that were lost in fires and things like that but again his accomplishment was covered in newspapers. why did the wright brothers get all the credit? >> he was covered in newspapers not just in the united states but all the way from vermont to hawaii. even in my home country, australia, and in new zealand and france and germany where i am now, newspapers everywhere were reporting his flight. so it's a very, very, very big oversight that

historians have missed this. what the wrights did was in august 8th, 1908, 8/8/08 is easy day to remember. i was in france, that's where they did their first public demonstration of flight. it was so incredibly impressive what they were doing there, they had really mastered the flight, the art of flight but they hadn't invented the art of flight. jon: wow! joins, all the world's aircraft, is sort of the bible of aviation community t agrees with the research john brown has done. it says gus stuff white head was actually the first to fly. gustav whitehead.com is the website john brown put together. if you like to read more about his research, for us aviation nuts, it is fascinating. check it out. jenna: even non-aviation nuts like your coanchor. that is fascinating story. jon: quite a story. jenna: can't wait to learn more about that we'll move

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jenna: i'm jenna lee. reince priebus releasing the report today on the 2012 election and looking at what the party needs to do to improve its prospects for 2016 and beyond focusing on everything from closing the digital divide with democrats to stepping out to outreach groups. he said the gop is a tail of two parties. one of them the gubernatorial wing is growing and successful. the federal wing is marginalizing itself and unless changes are made it will be increasingly difficult for republicans to win another presidential election in the near future. carl cameron is live with more. >> reporter: they lost a lot of ground in 2012 republicans did so they are trying to make it up and fast. they went at this and last year lost in just about every tkrefpblgts they will hire hundreds of staffers to reach out to minorities and women and do gets with the grassroots and

better organizing. all at least has to fall under somewhat in trying to shed what they admit is a damaged reputation. >> our message was we can, our ground game was insufficient. we weren't inclusive, we were behind in both data and digital, and our primary and debate process needed improvement. >> reporter: they had with them a panel of five experts, longtime political activist, strategists et cetera and they concluded that it's not just hispanics and not just women and youth votes, what has to happen for the future of the party is to increase their tolerance increase their open-minded sort of approach to courting people and to try to appear more cliff. sally bradshaw is a prominent floridian in the center of all this. hear how she put. >> it young voters are increasingly rolling their eyes at what the party represents. many minorities think that

republicans don't like them or don't want them in our country. >> reporter: they say she deserve to have a seat at the table. women out vote men. this report wasn't supposed to specifically focus on policy. it says that comprehensive immigration reform, which would approve a path to legalization or perhaps citizenship here illegally now is consistent with the platform which means the g.o.p. is officially supporting comprehensive immigration reform, something that is very, very controversial in this party for years. jenna: beyond the talking about the report, are there any plans out there from the strategists to change things. >> they will spend $10 million this year alone and send out

staffers to do grassroots and reach out to the communities as well. they'll higher an it specialist. somebody from silicon valley will come and show them ou to work the googles and twitters. they will look at trying to shape up their technology and really important stuff in terms of the primaries. try to make the calendar a little bit shorter. move the conventions from august perhaps to as soon as june, and then for those who remember the 23 debates that the country watched in the republican primaries of 2012 they would cut that by perhaps as two-thirds, to seven or eight debates. a lot of big changes coming to the republicans. jenna: and you remember every single one of those debates because you were there, right, carl? >> reporter: yeah, fondly too. jenna: no comment. >> reporter: sometimes good but that was an awful loft it. jenna: 23, that is for sure. great to see you as always,

thank you. jon: a leading republican lawmaker is raising serious questions about the obama administration's handling of the benghazi terror attacks and the aftermath. senator lindsey graham accuses the white house of telling injured survivers of those attacks to quote, be quite and not share their stories. now he's willing to do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of this happen. >> i'm going to hold up the pweufs the senate until we get the survivors on record. i've talked to a couple. their story is chilling. they are scared to death to come forward without some institutional support. jon: let's talk about it with bret baier the anchor of special report and a guy who has done a great deal of reporting on what happened in the benghazi situation. there are 33 survivors of the attacks who were evacuated from the diplomatic facilities there, bret? >> reporter: yes, jon, a lot of them fall into the cia category and probably will not be heard from, undercover agents. you do have at least four state department officials, state

department security and a contractor who were injured in the attack, and you have people like senator graham saying that they have talked to some of these people, and that they have been told to be quiet. we had senator graham on friday, and it was a very interesting interview in that he called for the house to, quote, step up its game on benghazi, saying that they need to subpoena, if these people are not able to come forward, the names are not released by the administration, if they are not felt like they have protection for coming forward, they need to subpoena them is what senator graham said. you just heard him saying he was going to hold up significant action in the senate, and he's key to a lot of different things that the administration wants to move forward on. jon: there was the feeling that the administration was reticent to have benghazi front and center in the news back during the election season.

because when the president was talking about al-qaida on the decline it was not good politics to have a successful terror attack on our embassy. what would be the reason now to keep awful this under the rug? -- all of this under the rug? >> we don't know the answer to that question. that is something we've been trying to dig on for a longtime. why is this now this far after the attack so tough to get to some of these people, tosome ofe been unanswered from the beginning. you heard the president in a google chat say that everything has come forward, and the benghazi situation is all out there, and he thought it was all about politics. well, there are a lot of unanswered questions, and senator graham says that the testimony of these people he's talked to, survivors, is chilling, and that they will tell a story of being abandoned, they felt, in benghazi in those seven and a half to eight hours

of that attack. jon: the quote from the white house press spokesman jay carney, he says i'm sure the white house is not preventing anyone from speaking. but senator graham seems to dispute that. >> reporter: right. he says point belong that they've been told to be quiet. and they are fearful. so i think this will, from that interview on friday, that we had with senator graham and over the weekend obviously he talked more about it. others have talked about it. representative chaffetz and wolf, other members of congress are pushing forward on this and i think it will start to gather to steam here especially if you have some people like graham saying they are going to hold up things in the senate. i want to make one other point. another story is kind of connected to this. and that is the transparency with the osama bin laden documents recovered at the

abbottabad compound. there were hundreds of thousands of documents that could fill a college library within the first days, only 17 have been released. from other reporting we've heard about these documents it said osama bin laden and type al-qaida were in constant communication with the al-qaida affiliates and was much more about directing attacks all around the world. all of this fits together with the picture of al-qaida and we are trying to dig and get to the bottom of all of it. jon: keep up the digging. good work in washington. bret baier thank you. you can catch bret each weeknight 6:00pm earn right here on knocks news channel. jenna: a pair of guilty verdicts in a rape case against two ohio college football players. the state attorney general says there could be more charges in the attack on the 16-year-old girl. >> i've reached the conclusion that this investigation must -- cannot be completed.

this investigation simply cannot be completed, that we cannot bring finality to this matter without the convening of a grand jury. i'd like to take a moment to talk not as the attorney general of this state, but rather as a parent, parent of eight and now grand parent of 19. any rapist a tragedy. any rapist very difficult, horrible for the victim. i think it's even more difficult when the victim is continually revictimized in the social media. jenna: rapist a crime. after the verdict the victim's mother delivered an emotional statement in court addressth two defendants on the screen. >> it did not matter what school you went to, what city you lived

in or what sport you played. human compassion is not taught by a teacher, a coach or a parent it is a god-given gift instilled in all of us. you displayed not only a lack of this compassion but a lack of any moral code. your decisions that night affected countless lives including most most dear to you. you were your own accusor through the social media that you chose to publish your criminal conduct on. this does not define what thigh daughter is. she will preserve, grow and move on. i have pity for you both. i hope you fear the lord, prevent for your actions and pray hard for his forgivess. jenna: they say the case will focus on those who failed to speak up after the incident occurred last summer. jon: president obama on the eve of an historic trip to israel getting set to hold crucial meetings with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what it will mean for our

dealings with iran. jenna: the murder trial for the imposter to called himself character rockefeller. the latest legal developments next. jon: a terrifying scene, a private jet crashes into several homes. tphao* new knee tkaeuls onew details on what may have caused this deadly accident. >> it touched down at least one time and then started to climb again at that point. >> you live so close to the airport, you expect that you might see it one day but hope you don't de pasta, and 100% real cheddar cheese. but what makes stouffer's mac n' cheese best of all. that moment you enjoy it at home. stouffer's. made with care for you or your family.

jon: now investigators are on the ground in south bend, indiana where a small plane hit several homes as the crashed into a residential neighborhood. two people are dead including a former college football star. jaimjaime colby has the latest from our newsroom. >> reporter: late breaking news on this. jon. according to the county coroner's office there one of the victims is a former championship quarterback from the university of oklahoma. he's 60-year-old steven davis. he was the starting quarterback for the school's national

championship teams in both 1974 and 75. also killed in the crash aeu i according to the coroner. 52-year-old wesley caves believed to be the owner of the plane. we have been update owned the three victims transported to a hospital. one is a passenger in serious condition, another a passenger in fair condition, and when you see this wreckage you'll understand that it's a miracle that only one adult was injured on the ground, that is in fair condition. we don't know the sex or the identification of that person. this plane or what was this plane was a beechcraft premiere one, jon you're a pie lot, you're probably very familiar witness. it left tulsa, oklahoma 3:15 local time sunday afternoon. the pilot reporting according to an early investigation that there was a mechanical or electrical problem. it did touchdown actually and the airport runway in south bend then the climbed again before kraeurpbg into these three homes. though officials are still searching one of the homes today, jon they believe everyone

is accounted for. those who witnessed the crash in this neighborhood and survived they admit they live close to the airport, they knew there was always a risk, they never thought it would happen to them. >> my front door flew open and i heard a big boom. i ran outside and got my kids to come inside. >> i saw the plane and then i heard the boom, and the sirens were right there, so then i ran to the front and it was just a big cloud of insulation and plane parts and everything flying. >> these folks were lucky, because some off-duty emergency rescue workers were in the neighborhood, saw the plane coming down. the plane reportedly registered in montana to a tulsa county, triple-digit a cut systems. they make film and pane overlay for automobiles. they are keeping a very close eye on the scene because the biggest risk is jet fuel which leaked out of the plane and it's puddled in one of the homes. a single spark would blow that

house up. many residents were allowed back in last night. a very active and critical scene as to what will happen next. jon: a very sad story. thank you. jenna: a special look today back at the start of the iraq war ten years before it began. we remember shock and awe over baghdad and the first troops that spear headed the invasion. the growing threat from iran topic number one as president obama heeds to israel this week. >> you can't tuesday iran. they are a rogue nation, they are exporting terrorism. their saoeurb attack has been out there. we have to deal with that issue, and i think right now with the president going to israel that there hopefully will be some agreement between benjamin netanyahu and the president.

jon: louisiana governor bobby jindal is okay after a car accident in baton rouge. a large truck sideswiped the suv carrying the governor home from his son's soccer game. a state troop tpher a second vehicle was hurt when he swerved to avoid the truck and hit a utility pole. his injuries said to be minor. police cited the truck driver for making an illegal turn. jenna: right now the president preparing for a landmark trip to israel, his first as commander-in-chief. meeting on wednesday with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu whom some have described he's had a frosty relationship with. joining us now a former assistant to president vice cheney for security affairs. steve vin yates. a lot of politics in play for both of these leaders. if we take a step back for a

moment and concentrate on a best case scenario for america and americans what should come out of this meeting. >> the best case scenario would be to find a common way t to deal with threats. the iranian threat affects many countries around the gulf and also the broader region. then there is the on going civil war in syria, which is many ways is an iranian proximate see war with other powers with great consequences, seemingly with no end. a way forward in those areas would be ideal. i have limiteddess expectations about this trip accomplish thing. jenna: why? >> first and foremost if you're looking at major leaders dealing with other major leaders there is always a problem of major trust and rapport in sealing a deal with compromise on both sides. president obama's relationship with the prime minister of is real isn't one of those relationships with warmth, trust

and in a position to move some kind of a new agenda forward in my estimation. if he's able to that would be wonderful and good for the united states jew look at the region overall whether it's egypt, syria, lebanon, jordan there is a lot of chaos and israel remains the sole democracy in the roads. what do they have to disagree upon as far as the priorities of what to accomplish in the region. what is preventing a bigger break through? >> there are two areas where there are stumbling blocks. one is the obama administration doesn't seem to have a theory of how it intends to deal with the region post arab spring where it's been a ark of instability. he's focusing once again on israeli palestinian negotiations. i myself see that as somewhat of a policy trap. while it's incredibly important for domestic politics in israel it is not the driver of peace and stability across the broader

region. the conflict of visions may be lack of strategy on one hand is a major stumbling black. jenna: there are talks regarding iran happening today in istanbul as part of the progress. there is a continuing review of what is happening with than sanctions one where iran is as far as nuclear weapons. how does that come into play, steven with the president going to the region this week and what message potentially could be sent to iran this week regarding what we are going to do? >> well, i wish that the president's itinerary was a more broad itinerary across the region because unfortunately when he goes to israel and talks about iran it gives i fall false impression that this is a u.s.-israeli issue only when it's a much broader issue. it is very important to stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies. it affects our dealings in north korea. what has happened in north korea

unfortunately is sending a negative signal to iran, eupl immunity a tee in achieving the world's worse weapons is a green light to iran to ignore any sanctions that may come their way. jenna: let's talk about what this means for the american people. peter berkoweitz had a article in "real clear politics." he made it clear the president wants less inch tphrupbs in th influence in the middle east as poe posed to more influence. what is your reaction to that. >> i think there is an element of truth to what he says. the president hasn't really put forward a bold agenda, hasn't really said what we intend to try to influence, what means we'll use to influence the broader region, and he said leaders variously must go, that we've set a red line with iran but never really said what we would be willing to do about these things. that does send a signal, he's really willing to take a somewhat les lacks days les

afaire approach. jenna: thank you. jon: he called himself a rockefeller for years. this now infamous conman is going to trial on murder charges. the latest on the case of the man who passed himself off as clark rockefeller. and the republican party doing some soul searching with a new report on last year's election and why the party couldn't take the white house. but do the media play a role in how voters view the g.o.p.? our news watch panel takes a closer look next. i worked a patrol unit for 17 years in the city of baltimore. when i first started experiencing the pain, it's hard to describe because you have a numbness but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point, i knew i had to do something.

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jon: former secretary of state hillary clinton taking a stand on a key social issue today announcing her support of gay marriage. in a video released by human rights campaign. watch. >> lgbt americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. that includes marriage. that's why i support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. i support it personally, and as a matter of policy and law. jon: mrs. clinton's announcement puts her in line with other 0 potential democrats who might

want to run for the white house in 2016 including vice president joe biden and new york governor andrew cuomo. jenna: the jury is seated in the trial of the man who posed as a member of one of america's richest family, the imposter who passed himself off as clark rockefeller, remember him? he's more of a conman. he's more than just the kidnaper of his daughter, now he's accused of murder, and the case is going to trial today. greg is here with more. >> reporter: you know, jenna long before he became a fake rockefeller worming his way into high society, scamming his way to the alter with a very wealthy woman, christian gerhartsreiter was a purchased derer say prosecutors from 1983 to 85. the german-born imposter and conman was rent th-g guesthouse in an upscale home in san marino khr-fplt it's a house owned by the family of john and linda sohus. they lived in the main house but vanished mysteriously.

no trace ever them. a decade later what is believed to be john's remains were discovered buried in plastic bags when new owners of the holmby begannes beganness ka sraeugt the backyard to build a pool. linda was never found and is presumed dead. it wasn't until christian gerhartsreiter abducted his daughter and was bussed and exposed as a fraud. authorities began looking at him again in california in cokes with the sohus case. the trial begins in l.a. seven women five men on the jury. the evidence is circumstantial here, kind of thin. the bag of bones carried a college logo, the same college the fake rockefeller attended. he was caught driving the couple's missing or stolen pickup truck a new years. he vanished and evaded police. hraoupl tphol tests show tha

hraoupluminol was found in a room in the house. >> we will bring in our panel. dan, as a prosecutor there is no motive as greg says, 27 years have passed. what can the prosecution do in a case like this? where do they go or start. >> it's hard to prove a case without motive but motive is not a requirement for proving the case beyond a reasonable doubt. we start with what we know. was living at the home when the couple disappeared. we know at least one of them was killed because his body remains have been found. the bag shows the university of wisconsin milwaukee logo from the time he attended that school, the same logo, and we know he's led a life of deception and that goes to his credibility. there is a lot connecting him to the crime. the question is can you prove it beyond a reasonable doubt and there will be challenges for that. >> chip, what do you think the challenges are? >> well, there is going to be all kinds of challenges with respect to the direct evidence,

because there is a complete lack of it in this case. in today's day and age jurors are going to start to ask, is there any dna evidence, any fingerprints that link him to the particular crime himself of him actually doing it versus somebody else who might have done it that used the bag to put the bones into and burying him. that's the problem with the case here, beyond a reasonable doubt is a very high standard to proof even with direct evidence and here we have none whatsoever. all we have is circumstances of a con artist leaving and nobody knowing exactly what he would want to do this. the jurors, why it's not a requirement the jurors want to know why. jenna: we all watch "law & order," it ups the evidence for what evidence we want to see in a case. how is the previous crime, the kidnapping, pretending he's soeb is not, how does that come into play in this case. >> he had a whole marriage with

deception pretending he was a rockefeller and he wasn't. then he abducted his daughter. that shows his credibility, he's not someone to be believed. does that mean he murdered someone beyond a reasonable doubt? it does along with the evidence connecting him to the crime it does make a case that the prosecution can bring to trial. ace said before there will be challenges. jenna: 250 witnesses are on the list. 30 years have passed since this crime. i ask dan this as a prosecutor, as the defense how would you open up this trial, what would you say? >> from the defense side they'll pick apart most of these witnesses. most of us can't remember what we were doing yesterday much less 27 and 30 years ago when all the bizarre circumstances took place. it's a circumstantial case of circumstances that took place. the credibility is bad for the defendant but even worse for the

prosecutor. most. witnesses are not going to be able to remember exactly what happened 30 years ago, none of us can do it. jenna: that is a good point. this guy has been in prison, he's serving a five-year sentence for the kidnapping, and the betrayal, his con in general that we followed a couple of years ago. we'll see if he remains in prison, if he's found guilty in this case. the trial begins today. chip and dan, great to see you. thanks for the time. >> thank you. >> thanks, jenna. jon: a military milestone this week as america marks ten years since launching operation iraqi freedom. the opening shot in that historic effort fired by a marine battalion that paved the way for others to follow. our own rick leventhal was embedded with that unit when it began. he looks back at iraq ten years later. >> we wanted to focus on several marines that we spent the most time with back in 2003. it was commanded by lien lieutenant co corn tpholalou

seven and the. with the 10th anniversary of the invasion approaching i asked now general clarity if he felt he accomplished his mission back in 2003. >> i think we left iraq better than we found it, and i'm proud of it. the iraqis are in control of their own destiny. that was not true at the time. they will take what we've given them and determine where they want to go in the future. that certainly wasn't two under saddam hussein. >> general clarity says his only regret was he wasn't able to bring everyone home. in 2007 he went to command troops at the sprawling air base leaving the surge that is widely requested to bringing peace to one of the most dangerous places on earth at the time.

he's the director of operations in the marine corps. he's eligible for 2 stars. he'll command the third marine division. >> i think i owe something. i owe something to the country, the core and the marines and sailors i've served w. i think i can do that better if i'm in the military. >> we'll have more on general clardy tonight with bret baier at 6:00 eastern time and profile more marines every day this week. jon: great to have a guy like him wearing the uniform. hard to believe it's been ten years. >> reporter: yeah, a lot more gray hair. jon: you earned it, thanks. jenna: the g.o.p. reallying a critique of his handling ever the 2012e 2012ee collection. what role did the media play in the party's failure to connect with key voting groups? does the media have a roll in all this. our panel weighs in ahead. a century's old tradition in one of the most beautiful places in

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jon: let's return to one of our top stories. how will the news media play it? the g.o.p. issuing a new report today taking a hard look at the 2012 election. also charting a new course for 2016 and beyond. here is the chairman of the republican national committee, reince priebus. >> if you're not in the community, if you're not talking to people, and the level of familiarity isn't there, then things -- silly things like, todd aiken and some of the goff fee things that were said, when there is a vacuum the caricature becomes true if you're if you have unscripted moments and you've got no relationship

to explain anything, obviously i believe you're a sitting duck. jon: he's talking about a new report from the rnc that says the party needs to change its ways essentially. do the media, though, bear any responsibility for the republican party's image? let's talk about it with our news watch panel. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show author of "thank the liberals for saving america and why you should." jim pinkerton is kr-bgt editor and writer for the american conservative marks he is also a fox news contributor. alan does the g.o.p. get a fair shake in the press? >> yes. and to blame the media for the g.o.p.'s more problems. i thought reince priebus was very, very candid in what he said. if democrats had said some of those things running up until now the media would go crazy saying democrats shouldn't be take those theurpbgs we are putting down the republican party. if the press said the very things that reince priebus said you'd say it's the liberal media going after republicans. he was for the report and candid

east should be. the media can't say that but he can. jon: this article about what the g.o.p. has discovered about itself, you can here is how "politico" head lined it in our online just today. voters see the g.o.p. as scary and out of touch. >> right, chairman reince priebus and his team put together a 100-page report full of ta advertise particulars. the headline i keep saying looking through my smartphone is stuffy old men. there are three words in there stuffy old men in a 100-page report. and it's like the spot in the cue ball. what's wrong with that, that cue ball high school a flaw in it. they knew what they were doing. the republicans had to put in some comments about the party made mistakes in 2012 and had to fix it. every head line you see for the

next two days will be stuff key, scary, crabby. >> there are a number of things that reince priebus said that would call into that category. it's the media quoting what he said. >> they did that so the democrats after walter mondale got defeated in 1984 and the democratic leadership council got started a major force in the bill clinton presidency and so on. we've seen this after the republican party was rebuilt. and they rebuilt the g.o.p. again. there is a story of repw*ult building that you and your friend are not going to pick up on. >> the story is here what reince priebus said now, that is what the headline says. there are a number of things in the report that do not make the republican party look great. to this is credit he was very candidate about it. he left out how bad the canned

dei dates were and talking about having a smaller window for depwaeufplts ardee dee bates. jon: are they focusing too much on the negative. >> the whole worth was negative. >> alan gives the republicans credit for discrediting themselves, that's what alan wants to see. believe me the report, if anybody reads this online, will see it is a rebuilding document. look, if you judge the -- anybody's presidency including barack obama's presidency by a single incident, like making fun of a cop to boss tonight. you'd say what a terrible president. you wouldn't know he got reelected by 32 dates. >> the news here is that the head of the republican party was exteam lee candid and in fact quite, quite difficult in terms of the language towards his own party. >> let me help you here alan. >> thank u. >> it it is also the republican party has plans for rebuilding. >> that's in there too.

but its how brutal praoeb were was about his own party that is news. jon: again in the headlines it's all about as jim said stuffy hold men. >> he was brutal on every score. about immigrants, gays, a obama. it was brutal honesty. >> the republicans got beat, they know that, but they still have 30 governors, they still have the majority of the house of reufpts. and there is more than brutality there. there is also awareness of past republican successes. there is both alan, both. >> the other thing i read was better saint federal. that was in the report as well. that was widely reported today. >> i didn't see that in any headline. jon: when the 2016 presidential elections come around should we look forward to stories about a new crop of republican candidates energized by, you know, the party's research is coming. >> it would be good for the party if they had a new crop of

candidates. >> nbc's coverage of cpac the conservative conference last weekend, you did see new stars like rand paul, marco rubio emerge nothing a big, big way on the national stage. all nbc could cover is infighting on little side panels. >> what about the coverage of rand paul winning the straw poll. he got a lot of coverage about his cpac address. he's getting a lot of press in general about the filibuster that was mostly positive on both sides. >> he did a good thing. >> i agree with you. jon: and i'm sure the white house agrees. good to talk to you guys. alan colmes, jim pinkerton, thank you very much. jenna: we'll take a break from politics right now. a one of a kind festival happening in spain. peel in virginia lien see arwelcoming spring like no other city in the entire world. alicia a kuha lee she alicia acuna is there live. >> there are surprises on every corner. in a couple of days they are

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jenna: fire, flowers and braids when a combination, right marking the end of winter in spain. people in valencia welcoming spring in a way you just won't see anywhere else. alicia acuna is there streaming live from spain. >> hi, jenna. yes, this festival here despite all of the sound and the noises you hear and all of the flash it also has deep religious phaoefpblgt yesterday and today is the ofrienda that is a flower offering to the virgin of the forsaken. thousands march towards the virgin in valencia it has so many participants they have to split it into two days. it's a long walk with many stops that can take hours. spain is heavily catholic so it

can be very solemn. some women choose to wear black lace in their hair and it's tphoupbt usual to see people crying or tearing up. each virgin leaves flowers of a different color to fill in the likeness of the virgin mary. many choose to pray or make a promise. tomorrow night we will see the fires start to burn, they begin with the children's smaller statuettes, at midnight on wednesday they move onto the big fiests. it's known as le creama. many of these monuments offer political and social commentary. >> the politicians are free game, economic situation is free game. it's a chance for people to release maybe frustrations with a good sense of humor, done in a very artistic way, a very smart and i tell gent way.

>> neighborhood satisfactory soerassociations complete with light display. this one is like an outdoor giant disco and people dance in the street. sleep in the a priority at this time. up tonight, general ace the pialla. it is a signature dish here. they are going to throw down. they are having a competition about 40 participants all vying to be able to say that they have the best in valencia. jenna. jenna: sounds delicious. i'll try that out. jon: i know. jenna: thank you. jon: actor david hassle hoff may be best known for starring roles on shows like baywatch and night rider, now he's using his fame for a cause close to his heart. we'll tell you what he's doing in germany, next. clear, huh? i'm not juice or fancy water. i've gotine grams of protein. that's three times more than me! [ female announcer ] ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach.

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